Nationality American Name Howard Tullman | ||
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Born June 27, 1945 (age 79) ( 1945-06-27 ) St. Louis, Missouri Occupation 1871 Chicago, CEO; G2T3V, Managing Partner; Chicago High Tech Investment Partners, Managing Partner | ||
Howard A. Tullman named first executive director of Kaplan Institute
Howard A. Tullman is an American serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, educator, writer, lecturer, and art collector. He currently serves as CEO of 1871, Managing Partner of G2T3V, LLC, and the Managing Partner of Chicago High Tech Investment Partners LLC.
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- Howard A Tullman named first executive director of Kaplan Institute
- 1871 CEO Howard A Tullman Tech Talk at The Latin School of Chicago
- Early life
- Education
- Entrepreneurial career
- Noteworthy positions held
- 1871 Chicago
- Law career
- Written works
- Disruptive innovation in education
- Howard A and Judith Tullman art collection
- Works
- References
1871: CEO Howard A. Tullman Tech Talk at The Latin School of Chicago
Early life
Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1945, Tullman was raised in a "humble, but driven and competitive" family of eight. He is the son of an apparel salesman and a stay-at-home mother (who later ran for public office in New Jersey) and the eldest of six siblings.
A seasoned entrepreneur by age 10 (having built both a candy racket and a magic performance business in his free time), Tullman and his family moved to Highland Park, Illinois in 1955. Tullman graduated from Highland Park High School in 1963.
Education
Tullman attended Northwestern University for his undergraduate degree, graduating cum laude in 1967 with a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics. He went on to receive his J.D. from Northwestern's School of Law where he graduated with Honors in 1970. During his time at Northwestern, Tullman was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as the Chairman of the Editors of the Law Review. He was selected as a Ford Foundation Fellow and developed, along with James R. Thompson, former Governor of Illinois, a national Ford Foundation program for the study of criminal law.
Entrepreneurial career
Tullman's entrepreneurial career spans five decades and a broad swath of industries. As of May 2011, Tullman has started 12 companies, including Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy, CCC Information Services, Tunes.com, the Rolling Stone Network, Imagination Pilots, Experiencia, and others. Tullman has also been tapped for senior executive positions at established institutions such as Coin Inc., Worldwide Xceed and Kendall College, where his expertise in turn-arounds saved the school from going into bankruptcy in 2003.
Noteworthy positions held
1871 Chicago
In January 2014, Tullman became CEO of 1871, a non-profit startup hub located in The Merchandise Mart in Chicago, Illinois and of its parent, the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center (CEC). 1871 was founded in May 2012 and is home to over 495 digital startups.
Recently, Tullman has helped establish The Bunker, the veteran run startup incubator.
Law career
Tullman practiced law from the time he was admitted to the Bar in 1970 until 1980, specializing in large-scale class action cases and Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases. In 1974, he was admitted on special petition to the Bar of the United States Supreme Court. He retired from law to found CCC Information Services.
Written works
Tullman has written, lectured and been interviewed on a number of legal and career issues. He has contributed chapters to several books, including Life After Law and Innovating Chicago Style. He also wrote the preface for You Need to be a Little Crazy by Barry Moltz, and his business ventures are included in a more recent book by Robert Jordan entitled How They Did It.
Tullman currently writes The Perspiration Principles, which appears weekly on Inc. Magazine's website, Inc.com. The articles published on Inc. served as the foundation for Tullman's book series, The Perspiration Principles. He is also the author of HindSight, a newsletter on current topics of interest to entrepreneurs and managers.
Disruptive innovation in education
Throughout his career in higher education, Tullman has been a proponent of revolutionizing the industry through disruptive innovation which is Clayton M. Christensen's term to describe new, rapidly iterated innovations that start from the bottom of traditional industries by providing small-scale and relatively inexpensive solutions (which quickly expand and improve) and which disrupt those existing marketplaces by displacing earlier, out-of-date programs with less expensive, faster and more effective solutions typically based on emerging new technologies.
As an early adopter of this philosophy, Tullman was among the first to bring disruptive innovation to for-profit education as evidenced in his work at Kendall College, Experiencia, and Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy. In each of these education ventures, Tullman sought to create educational environments that fed creativity while providing skill sets for future successful employment in the new digital world:
Howard A. and Judith Tullman art collection
The Howard A. and Judith Tullman art collection is among the largest and most diverse collections of contemporary realist art in America. The collection contains upwards of 1,300 pieces, more than 250 of which line the halls of Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy.
In addition to being an active collector, Tullman has also lent and donated art from the Tullman Collection to museums including:
Tullman has worked closely over the last 30 years with various artists and, some years ago, created a limited edition work of art in collaboration with the internationally known artist, Christo, which was used as a fund raising project for the Museum of Contemporary Art, where he previously served as a Trustee. The Tullman Collection has been featured in numerous catalogs including a major publication of 61 paintings from the Collection by the Mobile Museum of Art.